Hubot script to listen for Windows share paths and convert them to clickable cifs:// links
Full disclosure: This was mostly made as a silly proof-of-concept project to see what it's like to make a hubot-script. It's probably not all that useful to most people, but I figured I'd share it just in case.
Background:
I work at an organization where Mac users and Windows users collaborate via chat (in our case Slack). We have lots of legacy files on a Windows shared drive, and sometimes people reference those files by copy/pasting the Windows-flavored locations into chat messages (i.e. \\someserver\someshare\file.txt). It's lukewarm annoying to open this on a Mac, because I have to convert the slashes, so I wrote this hubot-script to listen for these kinds of Windows shared file paths and convert it into a click-friendly cifs://someserver/someshare/file.txt reference.
The regex matching I'm doing is a little wonky, because I wanted the ability to match these shared paths within other unrelated text... and if the path happens to contain spaces, boundaries get a little ambiguous. As a compromise, I allow spaces if there's an obvious file extension (i.e. \\someserver\someshare\file with spaces.txt), and don't if there's not (i.e. \\someserver\someshare\this will not work\file.txt).
Feedback and PR's are welcome, but again, this is mostly a rinky-dink demo to kick the tires on hubut scripts.